Your · Artemis

i want Revolutionary Road to be to me in 2008 what Atonement was in 2007. i'm pleased they cast Kate and Leo together for this one. it looks sublimely brilliant. although the book is no Ian McEwan masterpiece, it was and is culturally significant in its own way, kind of like the The Great Gatsby of the 50's. ohh, i hope it comes out in the UK too. love yous!
 

i'm feeling:

sleepy

the gorgeous autumn wind is here! i can smell the decaying leaves in it.
busy busy day. it was just the pharmacist and i, and we were overwhelmed. it's a Sunday, for gods' sake - why aren't you all with family? stop stocking up on drugs! i even had to give up one of my breaks. no big deal, i'd prefer busy days over quiet any time. only thing is, now i'm dead tired and my feet hurt.
on my way home i decided i'd relax for a bit before packing by watching the series 6 finale of Spooks. guys, i never thought i'd like this show so much. i mean, it's a show about MI5! an award-winning show, but still... it's a drama/thriller/action/adventure with emphasis on government spies and national politics. (granted, it is British and the Americans aren't put in the best light, hahaha.) it's about terrorism, assassinations, corruption, and it's all very, very sketch. most of the plot lines - should they ever happen - are horrifying. it's frightening to think that such people, organizations, secret services, and governments exist. the brilliance of the show is that it's totally unpredictable. often you have absolutely no freaking idea how the messy situations will be resolved until the last few minutes. (in that regard, season 6 is weird because it isn't serial at all. it's one long story arc from the first episode to last - very tense.) and it's even freakier because you can't know when your favourite character is going to be offed. in like, the third episode of the show, they killed one of the leads, and they've been doing stuff like that ever since. doesn't matter if it's the season premiere, or the middle of the fourth episode, or whatever - you just don't know. this makes it very interesting story-wise though. the new characters are woven in fluidly. although only two characters have lasted all six years, they've never had fewer than 5 team members. nearly every character i adore. best part is (as always): they're flawed! heck, half of the characters are gone because they became moles, went mental or screwed up and had to "die". of course, you can never be prepared for that because it's hard to see your favourites as flawed, but it does make for a devastatingly realistic show.
i guess the main reason i watch this show is (surprise surprise) for the characters. even their guest characters/actors were impressive, haha. but as for the main cast: whether it was Danny and Zoe in the first few seasons with their (heartbreakingly!) close friendship, or Ros with her difficulty in overcoming her past, or Adam (who has enough reasons to psyschologically collapse and amazes you in his struggle to survive), or Harry with his undying devotion to his team and country - i adore them. they're delightfully written. ohh, even the bad guys are fantastic (often because it's sometimes hard to differentiate, haha). very few of the staff do i dislike, znd they're gone now. you have your techie geek, your wannabe family man, your patriotic nonpracticing Muslim, your journalist-turned-spy - everyone's different. one of the main focuses of Spooks is on relationships, or rather - the lack thereof. it's repeated over and over that it's impossible to maintain a relationship and an MI5 career. they're heavily "encouraged to date within the Service", but even that doesn't turn out well most of the time. it's kind of neat to think that there really are people like this, those who sacrifice their relationships, integrity (they're all brilliant liars), and lives for national security, for us. 
 

i'm feeling:

guilty

1 - A Bitter Song - Butterfly Boucher
2 - Like A Star - Corrine Bailey Rae
3 - Long Distance - Turin Brakes
4 - One Of These Mornings - Moby
5 - S.O.S. - Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep
6 - You and Me - Lighthouse
7 - Ma Mémoire Sale - Louis Garrel
8 - Mysteries - Beth Gibbons
9 - Tell Me Now - Moya Brennan/Hans Zimmer
10 - Yellow - Coldplay

these aren't technically songs i'm "into right now", in a temporal superficial sense, as i always love listening to them. how sad is it that all tracks except 1, 2, and 10 are fandom-related? 10,000,000 points to whomever can identify the movies/shows, haha. no tagging tonight. love yous!

i'm feeling:

awake

• Casablanca  - THE perfect movie, one i could watch over and over again
• Gone with the Wind
• It Happened One Night - i like Clark Gable? a lot?
• Forrest Gump
• To Kill A Mockingbird - i wouldn't hesitate to say the movie more than lived up to the novel

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - this may come as a surprise to you, but i don't particularly like Spielberg or sci-fi or cutesy Drew Barrymore. i've seen this once, dutifully as everyone should, but wouldn't do so again
• A Clockwork Orange
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - kinda freaky, even for Disney. didn't particularly enjoy any of the songs or characters, though i respect it for its artistic merit and breakthroughs
• My Fair Lady - Higgins rocked my socks, but the  "rain in Spain"-ing? not so much. musicals generally annoy me, as does Audrey Hepburn
• The Wizard of Oz - freaky, a musical, AND one very annoying Judy Garland

• Platoon
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Birth of a Nation - for cultural/sociological/historical reasons. it's American cinema's first huge hit, for one thing. and i'd like to see how adeptly (or not) they argue the side of evil, of the KKK
• Doctor Zhivago - the book is too intense for me right now and will likely rot on my shelf a little longer, so i hope to see this adaptation soon instead
• Citizen Kane - it's true, i've yet to see it. forgive me?

• Chinatown
• Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick? no thanks
• Rocky
• The Silence of the Lambs - i hate horrors, most of all the psychological ones. am also not a fan of cannibalism.
• Psycho - i'd rather not be afraid of shadows behind my shower curtain, thanks.

• Dead Poets Society - you know why i love it, need i reiterate details?
• Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
• Ae Fond Kiss - beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
• Across the Universe
• When Harry Met Sally

i'm feeling:

tired

on Wednesday, October 8th, at approximately 4:20pm, i will be on my way to l'Angleterre.
it's a 7hr flight (arriving around 4am), followed by at least an hour "declaring" my arrival and collecting my luggage, followed by a 2hr train ride to York, followed by a 15min cab ride to my campus, followed by my stumbling to the Accomodations office to get my key, followed by heaving my exhausted self onto my new bed and sleeping for a day. ahh, i can see it now.
Air Transat was advising me to think about how many bottles of suntan lotion i'd want on my "vacation." right. because in Manchester at 4 in the morning in October - it's going to be bright and sunny. ahahaha.
it occurs to me i haven't written in here much lately. i went to the airport with Dave on Sunday. wow, was that ever hard. he's never gotten the credit he deserves as my very best friend, and i was overwhelmingly sad to see him go. he maintains that he'll come visit me in England in October. oh, that'd be magical. i've spoken to him since, and he's arrived okay. so far, he's really enjoying Bordeaux (his landlord aside) and can't wait until classes start. i'm so excited for him. Dave is the friend who i know i'll never lose, so i don't worry so much about keeping in touch with him. despite all odds, we'll always be in sync.
went to see Mamma Mia! with Mom and Dad tonight. Mom got a new haircut (looks really cute, really German) and wanted to go out and show it off (in a dark theatre surrounded by strangers, i know, i don't get it either). whatever, it was an excellent movie. very fun. i had to struggle real hard not to sing aloud. and it kinda made me wish Pierce Brosnan fathered one third of me too, haha. go see it, it's fabulously fun and will make you wish summer were still here and - trust me - that's hard for me to do!
Louise just informed me that my (other) cousins' family just put down one of their dogs. Tiko was this gorgeous monster of a dog. half-wolf, we were assuming. he lived outside, basically, and was such a great dog. big and white-ish grey, dominant but sweet. since they got him, he's always had a bad leg and i guess it now got so bad he couldn't even stand up anymore. he wasn't even all that old! tomorrow i'm phoning my aunt.
work tomorrow, gah. only three more weeks now, right? three weeks max. love yous!

i'm feeling:

indescribable